The president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Julio Castaños Guzmán, has a salary of RD$375,000 a month plus benefits. But his son, Julio César Castaños Zouain, is also employed at the JCE as deputy director of the National Elections Directorate (deputy director, Dirección Nacional de Elecciones), making RD$158,125, a month. Another son, Julio Simón Castaño Zouain, is the Dominican ambassador in Switzerland, with a monthly stipend of US$10,400. Somos Pueblo highlights that the wages in the Castaños Zouain family receives from government are RD$1,053,125 per month plus benefits.
Somos Pueblo also published other cases of persons who have or have held high positions in government and have family members with high wages on the government payroll. Included among these is a sister of Public Works Minister Gonzalo Castillo, Miriam Celeste Castillo Terrero, who is employed in the Ministry of Foreign Relations with a wage of RD$130,000 and his daughter, Mónica Paola Castillo López, who is vice consul in Chicago, USA with a wage of US$1,750. Somos Pueblo mentions there are rumors the daughter is studying in Boston.
Somos Pueblo also highlights that six of seven brothers of the president of the Chamber of Deputies Radhames Camacho are employed in government. And his wife is a deputy minister of Education with a wage of RD$250,000.
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13 May 2019